Sound with SPEAKERS but not with HEADPHONES ??

Hi all.
I have a Pentium4 .7 computer
Running Windows XP with update2
500Mb memory
Audigy 6. sound card
Creative INSPIRE 6. 6700 speakers (6 speakers + subwoofer and remote control (wired) for turning the speakers on/off and sound volume + headphone socket))
This is my problem, When I play anything on the computer, the sound works great on the speakers.
When I plug in the headphones, the sound goes off (as it should) but nothing is heard through the headphones.
I unplug the headphones and the sound is back through the speakers .
Why will the sound not come through my headphones ? (I have tried the headphones on other things and they are working fine on them)
I wrote to Creative labs and they sent me out a NEW remote control cable.
I plugged this in and it is still the same ?
I then found out a friend had the same set up and went to his house.
I tried the headphones in his remote control and they worked fine (the speakers went off and the headphones were playing the sounds).
I then replaced his subwoofer with my subwoofer and everything worked fine (even the headphones worked).
I borrowed his subwoofer and tried it on my computer and again, the speakers worked OK but when I plugged the headphones in, no sound from them again ?
What is going on ?
I can only guess that it is something to do with my computer or the settings ? but I cannot really understand why the headphones won't work when plugged in, but when unplugged the speakers do work?
(I thought that when you plug headphones into the headphone socket, it just broke the connection to the speakers and di'verted the sound through to the headphones so I am baffled) ???
Helppppppppppppppp ! I am going crazy going around in circles.
Regards.

Dear Jason.
First of all, could I apologise for my tantrum, I'll explain in a minute.
I looked at the announcement and I managed to sort out problem I was having which was, when I tried to run the DIAGNOSTIC TOOL, the writing went of the little window and there were no buttons to press and so I could not go any further.
After reading the announcement, I change the DPI to 96 (it was 20) and now I can see all the text and the buttons.
So thank you for that.
So the reason for my tantrum,
st - I was getting jealous that other people were getting there questions answered (LOL)
2nd - I have had my sound card and speakers for over a year now and after reading the reviews, I paid that little bit extra to get the best.
My computer set up was in the loft and it worked fine for ages.
I have now moved house and the computer has to go in the kids? bedroom (new house is not as big as the other house) and this is where I now need the headphones to use the computer in the evening.
Because I cannot get the headphones to work, I cannot use the computer now after 8:30pm and so I am finding it frustrating.
As I said, my friend?s works great and this is also pushing me over the edge (well not that bad LOL, but you know what I mean).
So I just want to get my headphones up and running and I seem to be getting no help at all.
So again, I am very sorry for the outburst, and I want to thank you for answering my question.
I will try what the announcement says by reinstalling the soundcard ETC and hopefully, I will be getting back to you to offer you a virtual pint (or 3).
Thank you Jason.
Colin.

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         passing object_value
         returning CONTENT)"TitleX"
    from xorm;
    child element query
    select XMLQuery ('for $a in movies/directorfilms/director[dirname = "Feyder"]
              let $b:=$a/../films/film[position()=2]
              return $b/t'
         passing object_value
         returning CONTENT)"TitleX"
    from xorm;
    here is the XPath format which doesn't work
    select extract (object_value,'movies/directorfilms/films/film [studios/studio = "Gaumont"]')
    from xorm;
    select extract (object_value,'movies/directorfilms[director/dirname = "Feyder"]/films/film[position()=2]/t')
    from xorm;
    by the way all queries work fine with the CLOB or Binary XML
    many thanx Marco

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